Client hack to support huge map-sizes found =)

[Xuri]

Interesting things going on over at Ryandor's forums - a client hack has been found for customizing the map-sizes that the client expects of the various map# files. In theory, this means that it could be possible to have mapsizes of for instance 10000x10000 for both map0, map2, map3 and map4. Or what about a map sized 30000x30000? Of course, a map like that would be horribly big, and there are probably no mapeditors actually capable of handling it, but... no more restricted map-sizes anyway

They're also working on a patch/program to handle the hack, so people don't have to hex-edit their clients manually.

EDIT: You can also edit the "wrap point" of the map, i.e. the black strip down the map which can be used to determine where the world "wraps around", sort of.

[stranf]

That sounds cool, especially the tool to go with it. A smooth way to drop land, similar to the NWN toolkit would be really nice.

By the way, Xu, how is your custom world coming?

[Xuri]

It's... not finished yet ;P

[giwo]

UOX3 can theoretically support a map size up to 65535x by 65535y For each map file, based on the maps.dfn loading code, so if the hack does work, we should be ready.